Can You Change Your Partner's Behavior?

By Celine Pering - October 22, 2010

Where do we start?
As I mentioned in my previous post, we can learn a lot in the design process by looking at ways we change behavior in human relationships. In human relationships persuasion, influence, power, and necessity are the implements of change.

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Have You Ever Tried to “Change” Your Spouse?

By Celine Pering - September 27, 2010

What lessons can we learn from “changing others” in human relationships to aid us in the design process? 

As someone who has tried to change my spouse, I can tell you that I have learned the hard way. “People don’t change, they grow” as my friends say. “You can only create the right conditions to engender a response.” So what does this mean for design? If we can’t change people, how can we change behavior? 

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Exit Trails

By Jason Severs - April 23, 2010

I've been observing the markers, or trails people leave while in transit, or as they exit a location. Here are two instances of exiting trails where the audiences are extremely similar but the manner in which alcohol containers were discarded varied greatly.

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